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-#!/bin/sh
-
-# Shell script to lint the message of the first commit in a pull request.
-#
-# Depends on curl, git, node, npm and npx being in $PATH.
-#
-# The pull request is either:
-# 1) supplied as an argument to this shell script
-# 2) derived from the HEAD commit via the GitHub API
-
-GH_API_URL="https://api.github.com"
-PR_ID=$1;
-if [ -z "${PR_ID}" ]; then
-  # Attempt to work out the PR number based on current HEAD
-  if HEAD_COMMIT="$( git rev-parse HEAD )"; then
-    if SEARCH_RESULTS="$( curl -s "${GH_API_URL}/search/issues?q=sha:${HEAD_COMMIT}+type:pr+repo:nodejs/node" )"; then
-      if FOUND_PR="$( node -p 'JSON.parse(process.argv[1]).items[0].number' "${SEARCH_RESULTS}" 2> /dev/null )"; then
-        PR_ID=${FOUND_PR}
-      fi
-    fi
-  fi
-fi
-if [ -z "${PR_ID}" ]; then
-  echo "Unable to determine the pull request number to check. Please specify, "
-  echo " e.g. $0 <PR_NUMBER>"
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-PATCH=$( curl -sL "https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/${PR_ID}.patch" | grep '^From ' )
-if FIRST_COMMIT="$( echo "$PATCH" | awk '/^From [0-9a-f]{40} / { if (count++ == 0) print $2 }' )"; then
-  MESSAGE=$( git show --quiet --format='format:%B' "$FIRST_COMMIT" )
-  echo "
-*** Linting the first commit message for pull request ${PR_ID}
-*** according to the guidelines at https://goo.gl/p2fr5Q.
-*** Commit message for $(echo "$FIRST_COMMIT" | cut -c 1-10) is:
-${MESSAGE}
-"
-  npx -q core-validate-commit --no-validate-metadata "${FIRST_COMMIT}"
-fi